Playin' By The Rules (Colored 2xLP)

PRESSED ON GALAXY GOGNAC COLORED VINYL Debut solo album from Orange Mound’s Lil Ced produced by Lil Ced, Kingpin Skinny Pimp, and Chill Will. Lil Ced was also in the group R.A.N. with Big Syl and received the Now-Again Memphis Rap reissue treatment on Gotta Be Lyrical.  The album was originally released on CD and cassette in 1997 and is now available for the first time on vinyl.  This is part of Now Again Records' multi-LP series on the History of Memphis Rap, which attempts to capture Memphis and its underground rap scene as it began to produce some of the most distinctive music of the 1990s.  This was a unique hip-hop strain – visceral and often vicious. It was a local, low-fi, cassette-tape-based movement – yet it went on to change the course of rap music. These albums have never been pressed on vinyl – until now. From Skinny Pimp and Carmike to Gangsta Blac and Shawty Pimp, these albums have been relegated to the proverbial bins of history and bootlegged, with unofficial copies still fetching top dollar on the secondary market. These albums were all licensed directly from their original creators and come on limited-edition colored vinyl with artist-approved imagery for their first LP iterations. You can read the story of the Memphis Rap scene in a 12-page, oversized booklet with notes by Torii MacAdams. It captures the story of Memphis rap, starting with the city’s founding and ending with an auto supply shop that sold these albums over the counter, with all points in between. Tracklist: A1. On That Grind A2. G-Life (ft. 211 & Big Blac) A3. R.I.P. (ft. Shay-D) A4. In Tha Game B1. Dreamin (ft. 211 & Z-Dog) B2. Money Mac Murder (ft. 211 & Big Hill) B3. Playin' By Tha Rules B4 Gotta Keep My Head Together (ft. 211, Z-Dog & Terry Sraughter) C1. All Up On My Bumper C2. Ghetto Gangster (ft. 211 & Z-Dog) C3. Big Boy Shit (ft. 211, Z-Dog & Big Hill) C4. No Hate’n (ft. 211, Gangsta Boo & Z-Dog) D1. Wanna Get 2 Know U D2. Snitches-N-Bitches (ft. 211 & Z-Dog) D3. Anticipation Of A Murder (ft. Geto Natives & Blake Franklin) D4.  Freestyles (ft. Kingpin Skinny Pimp & Lil Gin)